8 mins behind current leader Nick Jarvis which is quite a lot.Felt to be running ok but it was very well planned and consequently I think I messed up a lot of route choices.

Navigating well though apart from 13 where was too high up the slope (maybe 90s) and 22 'between two thickets' where I attacked from 4 different directions and still couldn't find it (3 mins). Otherwise good though.

Very aptly named race. Sustained wind for basically the entire race - to the extent that when running downhill I couldn't blink fast enough to keep the water out of my eyes to be able to see well enough to run at full speed - I think this is the first time that's ever happened. Drizzle throughout, low vis at the top which didn't matter since it was very well flagged and marshalled. Wet - where the Pennine Way was flagged it was the Pennine River. Also all the puddles on the moor had a thin layer of ice. Basically not PB conditions.Fast start along tracks for the about 5k before started being a fell race - but then got a bit hardcore in the second half. Very muddy downhill. Overtook a group of 4 on the hill who then took me back on the flat and who I couldn't catch on the downhill - This is totally backwards. All finished less than a minute ahead though, so I must have been catching them.

I enjoyed this despite the conditions - it's amazing how it felt so remote despite crossing the motorway 4 times, partly because of the wind. Definitely feel like wind is more of a weakness for me than hills.

This race was in our winter club champs so I thought I'd go for it. Actually I would have anyway. But the last time I was here I decided that I needed to really destroy the hill at the start and then try and hang on. This was definitely the right tactic for this parkrun. But the conditions were extremely bad - light rain (which was fine) but massively windy, lost about a minute on the last km uphill directly towards it. I think the guy behind was catching, but I was a long way ahead. We'll never know how much though, since the timing system broke! http://www.parkrun.org.uk/lymepark/results/weeklyr...

Left work late again (what is happening to me?!) - but a rest day was probably in order anyway as got a full saturday as ever...Forecast looks like it should be dry tomorrow night so hopefully can get something gentle in then.